If there is one knife that surpasses the fame of the Barlow knife, then it is the Bowie Knife. There are many stories relating to the origins of the knife, but perhaps the most convincing account can be found with Lucie Bowie, a member of the Bowie family, in a speech...

Sheffield, like Rome, is built upon seven hills. It is the minerals within these hills that Sheffield’s cutlery industry was able to prosper. The coal deposits, known as the Barnsley Seam, and the iron ore was worked and mined there from the twelfth century onwards....